It is a cost of business to ensure that all emails are captured, and that the legal department knows the full story, warts and all. It must be assumed that opposing legal counsels will know everything about email systems and will exploit any weakness mercilessly. The business must ensure that they clearly specify the business requirements for email archiving, including the requirements for provenance, permanence, and comprehensiveness. Otherwise any supposed legal umbrella will be illusory.

New page: It is a cost of business to ensure that all emails are captured, and that the legal department knows the full story, warts and all. It must be assumed that opposing legal counsels will kno...